Smart Grid

Because of its scale and complexity, effective Smart Grid adoption will require the active collaboration of electric utilities, technology suppliers and investors with industrial, commercial and residential consumers of electricity.  The Texas Institute helps clients create value from the Smart Grid by:

  • Providing an assessment of the Smart Grid landscape and how it relates to the organization's current situation
  • Creating strategies for developing, positioning and deploying Smart Grid technologies
  • Developing functional requirements and business processes to align the Smart Grid with strategic objectives
  • Assessing the functional benefits of business value of Smart Grid for key stakeholders

Key Smart Grid Initiatives

  • Meters, Sensors, and Analytics:
    • We work with our clients to deploy and manage advanced metering technologies in commercial, university and governmental buildings.  We employ sophisticated software analytics to monitor and measure key indicators. We then apply complex load disaggregation algorithms to these indicators to assist building owners and managers in understanding their power performance and providing recommendations for improving energy efficiency
  • Electric Vehicles and Transportation:
    • We provide both policy expertise and systems integration capabilities to support the adoption of electric vehicles and vehicle charging infrastructure.
  • Electricity Storage:
    • Large-scale grid energy storage is a crucial smart grid initiative, as it holds the potential to significantly increase effective capacity, efficiency and increased integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. Energy storage technology including advanced battery chemistry, compressed air storage, fuel cells, and hydro technologies represent key focus areas for the Texas Institute, our research and technology partners.
  • Grid Reliability & Security: 
    • With extensive expertise in telecommunications networks, information technology infrastructure and cyber security, we collaborate with our research and technology partners in addressing challenges and opportunities in grid reliability, security, privacy and performance amidst the evolving adoption of emerging standards and technologies.
  • Infrastructure Communications and Control:
    • The ability to ensure all aspects of energy consumption are in communications, actionable in real time, and controllable virtually is the key to have a smarter electric grid.